Maritimes Region Fisheries Atlas: Catch Weight Landings Mapping (2010–2014)

Maritimes Region Fisheries Atlas: Catch Weight Landings Mapping (2010–2014) DFO’s Oceans and Coastal Management Division (OCMD) in the Maritimes Region has updated its fisheries landings maps for 2010–2014. These maps will be used for decision making in coastal and oceans management, including mitigating human use conflicts, informing environmental emergency response operations and protocols, informing Marine Stewardship Council certification processes, planning marine protected area networks, assessing ecological risks, and monitoring compliance and threats in coral and sponge closures and Marine Protected Areas. Fisheries maps were created to identify important fishing areas using aggregate landed weight (kg) per 2 x 2-minute grid cell for selected species/gear types. This dataset has been filtered to comply with the Government of Canada's privacy policy. Privacy assessments were conducted to identify NAFO unit areas containing data with less than five vessel IDs, license IDs and fisher IDs. If this threshold was not met, catch weight locations were withheld from these unit areas to protect the identity or activity of individual vessels or companies. Maps were created for the following species/gear types: 1. Atlantic Halibut 2. Bluefin Tuna 3. Bottom Longline Groundfish 4. Bottom Trawl Groundfish 5. Cod 6. Cod, Haddock, Pollock 7. Cusk 8. Dogfish 9. Flatfish 10. Gillnet Groundfish 11. Greenland Halibut 12. Groundfish 13. Groundfish (quarterly composites Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4) 14. Hagfish 15. Herring 16. Large Pelagics 17. Mackerel 18. Monkfish 19. Offshore Clam 20. Offshore Lobster 21. Grey Zone Lobster 22. Other Crab 23. Other Tuna 24. Pollock 25. Porbeagle, Mako and Blue Shark 26. Red Hake 27. Redfish 28. Scallop 29. Scallop (quarterly composites Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4) 30. Sculpin 31. Sea Urchin 32. Shrimp 33. Silver Hake 34. Skate 35. Snow Crab 36. Squid 37. Swordfish 38. White Hake 39. Wolffish 2023-07-11 Fisheries and Oceans Canada Scott.Coffen-Smout@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Economics and IndustryNature and EnvironmentScience and TechnologyFishFisheriesBiomassFishing area Maritimes Fisheries Atlas - 2010-2014ESRI REST https://gisp.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/FGP/Maritimes_Fisheries_Atlas_2010_2014_EN/MapServer Maritimes Fisheries Atlas - 2010-2014ESRI REST https://gisp.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/FGP/Maritimes_Fisheries_Atlas_2010_2014_FR/MapServer

DFO’s Oceans and Coastal Management Division (OCMD) in the Maritimes Region has updated its fisheries landings maps for 2010–2014. These maps will be used for decision making in coastal and oceans management, including mitigating human use conflicts, informing environmental emergency response operations and protocols, informing Marine Stewardship Council certification processes, planning marine protected area networks, assessing ecological risks, and monitoring compliance and threats in coral and sponge closures and Marine Protected Areas. Fisheries maps were created to identify important fishing areas using aggregate landed weight (kg) per 2 x 2-minute grid cell for selected species/gear types.

This dataset has been filtered to comply with the Government of Canada's privacy policy. Privacy assessments were conducted to identify NAFO unit areas containing data with less than five vessel IDs, license IDs and fisher IDs. If this threshold was not met, catch weight locations were withheld from these unit areas to protect the identity or activity of individual vessels or companies.

Maps were created for the following species/gear types:

  1. Atlantic Halibut

  2. Bluefin Tuna

  3. Bottom Longline Groundfish

  4. Bottom Trawl Groundfish

  5. Cod

  6. Cod, Haddock, Pollock

  7. Cusk

  8. Dogfish

  9. Flatfish

  10. Gillnet Groundfish

  11. Greenland Halibut

  12. Groundfish

  13. Groundfish (quarterly composites Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4)

  14. Hagfish

  15. Herring

  16. Large Pelagics

  17. Mackerel

  18. Monkfish

  19. Offshore Clam

  20. Offshore Lobster

  21. Grey Zone Lobster

  22. Other Crab

  23. Other Tuna

  24. Pollock

  25. Porbeagle, Mako and Blue Shark

  26. Red Hake

  27. Redfish

  28. Scallop

  29. Scallop (quarterly composites Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4)

  30. Sculpin

  31. Sea Urchin

  32. Shrimp

  33. Silver Hake

  34. Skate

  35. Snow Crab

  36. Squid

  37. Swordfish

  38. White Hake

  39. Wolffish

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Contact Information

Delivery Point: 1 Challenger Drive

City: Dartmouth

Administrative Area: Nova Scotia

Postal Code: B2Y 4A2

Country: Canada

Electronic Mail Address: Sean.Butler@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

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